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If your school or institution is using Google Appsfor educators, and if they've given you a log-on, suchas your name at your school's web address, thenthan means your account is being managed by that institution.For example, if I click on the drop-down menu where it says student atOrange Valley School It actually tells methat this account is managed by orangevalleyschool.com.And even though I have access to a variety of Google products, howthose products are setup, and what I have access to, is actually managedby my school.This is an important thing to keep inmind, because that means that any emails you send,any communications you do, any way that youuse your Google account, your school has access, too.

And so, sometimes it's appropriate to use your schoolaccount to email between friends and family and professors, butsometimes you might have a personal Gmail account thatyou'd want to use to send emails to those people.Well, that can become a little bit of a challengebecause your personal Gmail is running on the same serversas your school email.And so to use this, I actually have to log out of Google and log back in witha different email address and that can be alittle frustrating if you're trying to manage both accounts.Well Google has created a system where you can actuallybe logged into two different Google accounts at the same time.

So let's go ahead and take a look at how Ican link my personal Gmail account with my school Google app account.The first thing we're going to do is come up to our drop-down menu.If you're logged into Gmail, you're actually going to click on the avataror the icon that you use in the upper right hand corner.Here, I have the opportunity to sign out, or I can choose to add an account.I'm going to go to click on Add an Account.Here, I'm going to go ahead and sign in with my regular Gmail account.Now, before I actually click Sign In, I'd like to pointout this cream-colored box at the left hand side of the screen.

While this works great for usingthings like Gmail, it doesn't work for all Google apps.If you're trying to quickly move between Google Drives or Googlesites, this may not be the best way to do it.However, if your biggest concern is being able toquickly email from your Gmail account as well ascheck and send email messages from your school account,then this is the perfect way to link the accounts.Let's go and click Sign In.So now it looks like I'm actually signed in to my personal gmail account.You can see that it has the Gmail header bar.I no longer have that black navigation bar at the top.But if I go and I click on my image Ican now see that I have two accounts available to me.

All I have to do is select my school accountand it automatically brings me back to my school login.This way, as your working inside of yourschool account and you want to quickly send anemail to your friends, all you have to do is quickly come up and switch accounts.

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Discover how to use Google Apps to become more productive in class and after school. In this course, author and educator Aaron Quigley shows students how to work with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Drive to communicate and collaborate with classmates, become more organized, and save time. Learn how to manage school and personal email, back up your assignments, create a class website, and connect with others on Google+. Teachers can also use this course to get tips to help their students succeed inside and outside the classroom.